Word: lax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon as I arrived at LAX, I phoned my great-uncle in Pasadena. "Uncle!" I cried. "In this time of national emergency, with the specter of another failed Presidency on the horizon, can I count on you to do your part as an American citizen...
...chief complaints by the taxi drivers focused on "police harassment," which they said includes excessively rigid enforcement of traffic laws, unwarranted parking tickets, insulting behavior, and comparatively lax enforcement of the cabs' right to stay in areas designated as taxi stands...
Discipline has been lax, signs of major problems have gone unheeded, and industrial managers have artificially inflated output targets and promised to finish projects ahead of time just to please political leaders, Oleinik said...
...daughter took off to the northwest toward the Pacific in the four-seat Piper that he had purchased three years ago for $33,000. He then banked to the right and headed eastward toward Big Bear Lake. At that point he was in a sector far enough from LAX to avoid the controlled space if he kept his plane below 6,000 ft. Tragically...
Despite the holiday weekend, the air traffic around LAX was not unusually heavy. The unidentified experienced controller covering Flight 498 had only ten radar transponder blips to track on his screen. "It was busy, but we weren't to the point of saturation," said Air Controller Karl Grundmann, another of the men on duty. Flight 498's controller told the pilot to descend from 7,000 ft. to 6,000. At 11:53, he issued a warning to the Aeromexico jet: "Traffic 10 o'clock (slightly to the airliner's left), one mile northbound, altitude unknown." Re- sponded 498: "Roger...